The Lenovo currently £329.99 at Currys PC World is a better deal - same spec - and it has a Full HD screen. And for a few more days Currys is offering a £50 or so trade in for old pcs. currys.co.uk/gbu…tml

This is cheaper and pretty similar: …This is cheaper and pretty similar: https://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/lenovo-ideapad-320s-14ikb-14-laptop-grey-10169170-pdt.html

this is much better as it has FHD :-D

20th Feb

i7 also used to mean quad-core for laptops (as long as it wasn’t ULV). There’s no easy way to know what you’ll get any more without prior research. Honestly they’re all usually the same silicon with different speed bins (higher turbo and base clocks). It is mostly marketing anyway, i5, i3, even Pentium is good enough for productivity work

The airflow on a laptop is designed for a certain thermal profile, exceed …The airflow on a laptop is designed for a certain thermal profile, exceed that and you're putting all nearby components at risk.The battery will also take a serious hit on performance and lifespan.

I just said there is no heat increase so thermal profile not affected. Also battery life hasn't changed, try again.

Cold for me when you compare it to other 1155 processors at CEX.i5-2300 is …Cold for me when you compare it to other 1155 processors at CEX.i5-2300 is the same price for example and is 4 cores instead of 2.https://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sku=SCPUINTI52300A

And I even got the i5 2300 for £15+£1.50 from them in November. Now that's a deal.

I was wrong, so i deleted the post, you managed to quote me brefore I …I was wrong, so i deleted the post, you managed to quote me brefore I deleted it My point was, just because they say 4th gen i5 doesn't mean its a hard requirement, there are plenty of slow 4th gen i5's and plenty of faster earlier generation processors.

In regards to that can it still start the VR if I decided to go for the lower gen but a faster one instead?

I am not the one saying it. I think somehow the comment was deleted. I am …I am not the one saying it. I think somehow the comment was deleted. I am asking the same question to the person that stated that. @dijital or sumthng... It's weird because I cannot quoted his statement. (it was deleted) I wish to know which is a good processer to start with. My aim is to build one with 1060 graphic card

I was wrong, so i deleted the post, you managed to quote me brefore I deleted it

My point was, just because they say 4th gen i5 doesn't mean its a hard requirement, there are plenty of slow 4th gen i5's and plenty of faster earlier generation processors.

I received a Intel Core i3-2100 (3.10Ghz) LGA1155 I assume by mistake - however I going to keep it to save the hassle of returns - has certainly made a decent upgrade to the HP Gen 8 microserver in any case...

31st Dec 2017

Thanks Hotpete ! My 2500k died 3 weeks ago and I've been humming and hawing over upgrading to Ryzen ( £££ ) or buying another 2500k but the £60-70 price tag for a used chip put me off investing. Just picked up a i5 3350 for £36.50 including postage. Thanks buddy!

Having experienced the other Asus offering which was a hot deal and turned out to be HD only I would avoid the product above. When I sat it next to a 6 year old HD only Samsung, the Asus Vivobook screen looked lacklustre and poor in comparison. I would avoid any of this range in HD only and look for FHD. It would have been fine if it at least matched the Samsung but it is being returned.

It's a bit like my mate Dave square and rectangular with not a lot of go.

29th Nov 2017

I got this laptop last black Friday for £275 with 256GB SSD (Laptops Direct), thought it would've dropped lower considering its even older tech now. Sister recently busted the screen, got replacement one for £28 off Ebay and fitted in less than 10 mins looking at YouTube (not really relevant but just in case it happens to anyone else).

29th Nov 2017

Why is this better for kids then adults?

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29th Nov 2017

Hello All,

I have seen this article (please find link below) and I followed the solution to delete the 'HP Analytics Service" from my own HP G4 250 machine.

Gutted I had this open in my browser from this morning about to pull the …Gutted I had this open in my browser from this morning about to pull the trigger, reloaded the page and its jumped up to £449.99. not worth it at that price shame its expired now.

Gone down to £329 now

29th Nov 2017

Gutted I had this open in my browser from this morning about to pull the trigger, reloaded the page and its jumped up to £449.99.

not worth it at that price shame its expired now.

27th Nov 2017

thanks Chuffedfox I've bought the Amazon one and feel like a huge cloud has been lifted! Just another one to research now but that should be much easier as I'll be getting a refurb for my daughter as she is rather, shall we say, heavy handed with all technology. Thanks for all your patience!

Ha definitely. I genuinely had a sweat on last night when that super …Ha definitely. I genuinely had a sweat on last night when that super gaming laptop came up for £450. I would have been devastated if I canceled the ao.com one and then the other got cancelled because it was an error, though.I think it's best to go whatever you're comfortable with. I'm hoping to see a good deal on an SSD that I can put in this one, which might mean the total price is nearer £330-40, but with perhaps a 1TB HDD and a 240GB SSD by the time I'm finished, which will be a great deal.

let me know if you find any we could do with a couple too... now to find some 32gb micro sdhc cards (max they support) for kids electronics ... got to be a bargain on them somewhere..

I have been researching and looking for a laptop for my primary aged …I have been researching and looking for a laptop for my primary aged daughter for a couple of weeks. It's for web surfing, school work (Word etc.) and she will probably want to do some basic editing of her phone videos for Youtube. I have a Macbook and she struggles to transfer between this and the school Windows machines.I could do with keeping sub £400 as originally I thought I was budgeting about £250. Haha. From what I've been reading an 8gb, i3 (not too old a gen') would be preferable. I see this also has SSD. She has an XBox for gaming so don't need to that on the laptop, although she may want to play Sims when she's old enough. Is this 'THE ONE'? The only thing that anyone has commented on negatively here is the screen. Is that going to be a major problem?Advice welcome please.

Get her one with an IPS screen, this is a cheap TN. it would be awful for photo editing. Click or this CLICK

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24th Nov 2017

I’ve bitten. Saved a few quid going through Zeek. Might return it if anything better shows up this week.

Well, yes there is. The i5's out perform the i3 but with the SSD you'll find that it handles day-to-day tasks such as office, streaming, multiple tabs and light photo editing pretty smoothly. Unless you want to use a laptop for gaming (in which case you'll need a dedicated graphics card) or video-editing, then this will do just fine.

Source; Bought one of these for the purposes mentioned above on a Currys deal for £399 - so this is a pretty decent price.

BEWARE I bought a lenovo Ideapad laptop and a tablet. After a time both …BEWARE I bought a lenovo Ideapad laptop and a tablet. After a time both refused to start. I have been able to reset the tablet but have not yet tried to fix the laptop as it has just gone wrong and is still under guarantee! So if you buy a Lenovo product it may stop working.Searching the net suggests the problems are quite common.

Don’t know ! I’m not that clever on computers! I use it for surfing the net and zwift and works great

22nd Nov 2017

BEWARE I bought a lenovo Ideapad laptop and a tablet. After a time both refused to start. I have been able to reset the tablet but have not yet tried to fix the laptop as it has just gone wrong and is still under guarantee! So if you buy a Lenovo product it may stop working.Searching the net suggests the problems are quite common.

Be very careful buying lenovo. We bought one from John Lewis with 3 year warranty last black Friday.A month ago one of the hinges went. John Lewis sent it to Lenovo to be fixed and they are claiming it is accidental damage (definitely not, definitely a design flaw) and want £60 to fix it.

23rd Nov 2017

Just purchased the 320 i5 with 128GB SSD yesterday for my daughter. This laptop is very fast and at £400 is a good deal. You really do not need any more than 4GB ram unless rendering videos.Hot for me.

Under the specs it lists a second storage drive as a 16GB SSD included too - if so this would be a quick set-up and looks decent. But it's not highlighted elsewhere in the listing so I do question this, may just be a hybrid hard drive? Anybody shed light on this that has bought one of these?

Can I ask a stupid question?I have a DELL LATITUDE D630 ( TEMPORARY, I KNOW ITS CRRAP AND SLOW)Why is it when i download a full HD movie, it looks like FULL HD even though it might not be HD at all??Does this make sense?

Of course I am. I'm only the guy who actually has the model and was forced …Of course I am. I'm only the guy who actually has the model and was forced to upgrade the RAM in order to get anything more productive than browsing done. But what would I know, go ahead and buy one with no intention of upgrading it. You sure sound like an expert. BTW now that I have 8GB of RAM in mine I notice it idling at 4GB of RAM in use at times when I'm not using it - of course it's not sitting idle, it's performing updates and maintenance tasks in the background, but you probably never have to maintain your computer you're such a 1337 C0d3r so you probably won't ever encounter that. Happy gaming, multi tasking and all those other techie things you experts can do on an i5 workstation with less RAM available to you than I have on my phone. T0$$€R.

Reported for profanity even if you tried to dodge the swear filter using silly symbols. Your age is showing

Stopped reading after you said 4gb RAM is only good for opening a browser. …Stopped reading after you said 4gb RAM is only good for opening a browser. Clueless

Of course I am. I'm only the guy who actually has the model and was forced to upgrade the RAM in order to get anything more productive than browsing done. But what would I know, go ahead and buy one with no intention of upgrading it. You sure sound like an expert. BTW now that I have 8GB of RAM in mine I notice it idling at 4GB of RAM in use at times when I'm not using it - of course it's not sitting idle, it's performing updates and maintenance tasks in the background, but you probably never have to maintain your computer you're such a 1337 C0d3r so you probably won't ever encounter that. Happy gaming, multi tasking and all those other techie things you experts can do on an i5 workstation with less RAM available to you than I have on my phone. T0$$€R.

I have the G4 version of this which is almost identical (it has a slightly …I have the G4 version of this which is almost identical (it has a slightly better CPU *i5*, but isn't FHD being the only real differences between the 2). It cost me £280 from eBuyer a year ago and once I'd swapped the original drive with a SSD and added another 4GB of RAM it's been a great "little" runner ever since. It's a bit on the heavy side compared to the Macs and Chromebooks I have and prefer, but out of all the Windows machines I've had over the years it's the best by far. Only downsides are:1) HP250 G4 is not 1080 FHD, it's a 768p screen in height and it's very noticeable. Tweaking the Intel graphics GUI for a while can make a world of difference though. This is 1080 FHD though so shouldn't need as much tinkering with for a good display.2) I don't know what HP's game is with these particular machines having 2 RAM slots and only filling one with 4GB, leaving the other empty then warning the user there are no serviceable parts inside and opening the machine may render the warranty void but it is absurd. Why not give it 8GB at least in the 1st place?? The damned things can't do anything bar open a browser with 4GB of RAM so you will need at least another 4GB of RAM just for running apps, uploading/downloading, streaming etc. Officially the G4 max RAM is 8GB (and it didn't void my warranty - I got that in writing when extending my cover for another 2 years) but I know it also works with 16GB [but voids all cover]. Since the G5 officially supports 16GB of RAM I'd suggest giving it exactly that for best results. You will need at least 8GB though in total. Even then the fan on mine comes on far too often. It's not like there's much inside that gets hot with the SSD fitted so can only guess the CPU/GPU would appreciate some extra help in the form of more RAM.3)Not a major downside per se but if the bottom is just one big covering rather than having handy compartments you can open to access to get at the drive, RAM, wireless card etc then enjoy the nerve wracking experience of getting that plastic bottom off by force. Every time I have had to open mine I have to wrench it so hard from the main body of the laptop that just before it gives it feels like it's about to snap into bits. I'd also turn off Windows updates for non-Microsoft firmware and software as M$oft always replace HP-specific drivers with their own generic ones which is a real PITA as they're often deficient to the ones HP supply, albeit a bit slower with the updates. Apart from those slight negatives you should enjoy it. If mine had a full HD screen I'm sure I'd use it a lot more than I've done so far. I don't game much but Kodi runs easily on mine and Steam powered games that aren't graphic-intensive run without a hitch too.

Stopped reading after you said 4gb RAM is only good for opening a browser. Clueless

6th Dec 2017

Cold bargain basement computer total no frills Curry's has a better one for 400

11th Nov 2017

How easy is it to add the additional 4GB of memory? Does it have an external opening or do you have to open the while laptop up?

Not a great deal considering John Lewis are doing a Lenovo 320 for £450 …Not a great deal considering John Lewis are doing a Lenovo 320 for £450 has 8gb of ram plus a 14” display and 2 year John Lewis guarantee. Coldhttps://m.johnlewis.com/lenovo-ideapad-320-laptop-intel-core-i3-8gb-ram-128gb-ssd-14-inch/p3288129

Kaspersky is a hungry bit of software, so good idea to remove it. There is another option you can look at, type in MSconfig in start and it will take you to system configuration, then go to start up and check what programmes start up when your computer boots up, you will amazed how many unnecessary apps are running on you computer. just disable the ones you don't use very often, it will not cause any problems as long it is not system based and when you need them just click on it and use them, when you re-start the computer they will no longer be running in the background.

Download malwarebytes and run this, its so easy to pick up a virus on the …Download malwarebytes and run this, its so easy to pick up a virus on the internet these days, this will sort that problem out. Worth a try before you take it back to JL.

Got mine at John Lewis from a deal here. It now crashes at least once an …Got mine at John Lewis from a deal here. It now crashes at least once an hour. No idea why. No blue screen or anything just halts.Will be ringing JL tomorrow. It's useless.. Shame as it's very fast.

Download malwarebytes and run this, its so easy to pick up a virus on the internet these days, this will sort that problem out. Worth a try before you take it back to JL.

Thanks for the feedback I'll give it a miss surely this price should have …Thanks for the feedback I'll give it a miss surely this price should have decent screen? I'm on the lookout for i3 processor again!

I know we don't yet have time machines, but for reference, I bought the i5 FHD version of this device for £499 in January this year. So probably, not a great price. Hang on for something better if you can. The 128GB is a bit of a squeeze, but I fitted a 128GB SD Card for about £30 which was cheaper than getting the 256GB model. I only use the extra storage for music/photos etc. so read/write speed isn't an issue.

I've just picked it up from the Amazon collection point. It seems like a really nice product and the laptop fits perfectly. It's more of a sleeve than a bag though so you'd probably want to use it inside another bag for uni unless you're happy carrying it.

5th Sep 2017

Picked up tonight - looks good and feels premium! and £22.50 cashback tracking?????

5th Sep 2017

FYI I've been unable buy either i3 or i5 on a few occasions (just to test stock cos don't like the gold) but both show no stock & unavailable for home delivery. Likely due to being discontinued product.

Bought this on Sunday, just wanted to share my experience dealing with Argos as a heads up.

Took it home on Sunday afternoon, first thing I noticed after removing from the box was that it has finger print marks on the shell and a very small scratch. Nothing major, hard to see, which was strange as security seal was intact.

I reserved another one, Went back in today and customer services immediately referred me to Acer, saying they do not deal with issues with Acer products, or any other electronics for that matter, but instead ask customers to contact the manufacturer to correctly identify the problem. In the end though, they were fine swapping mine out, as it was only an exchange.

So just wanted to say, Argos are saying if the item does develop a fault, I need to contact Acer. Has anyone had a similar experience?